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this is very unsympathetic of me maybe, but sometimes I see posts that make me go "I think you guys are just making up problems"

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I'd love to live in a world where we could hold people like Brian Thompson accountable without physically harming them and where they can still go home to their families.

But we don't live in a system like that. We live in a system where rich people have made themselves so immune to accountability that our only choices are doing nothing and doing too much. We are given no middle ground.

Eventually, people will get sick of doing nothing while other people die.

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anyone else 1 situation away from losing their mind

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women! be difficult! be mean! they’re gonna hate you either way!

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reblogged. reblogged. reblogged. youre all reblogged. none of you are free from my scrapbook

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it's so beethover / we're so bach

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C'est un grand oui.

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your life is not an optimization problem

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in order to not succumb to sex negative conservatism you have to accept that people will get off to things that are upsetting to you. and you cannot assume anything about what they have or have not experienced, what they do or do not believe, and how they act based solely on what gets them off. even if it's extremely confusing and disturbing to you. there are people who have only ever had heterosexual vanilla sex in missionary with the lights off, who actively contribute to more real world harm than your average fetish artist. kink is not a reliable source of information on someone's moral standing. it just feels good to think that way.

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✨💜 Beauty of Suramar 💜✨

also video edit

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a lot of behaviors that get attributed to "female socialization" can be so much more easily and accurately understood as a person recognizing the power differential surrounding them and behaving sensibly in response to that.

like. does a woman politely listen to a man monologue at her because of some experience she had when she was twelve that magically cursed her to behave that way forever, or does she do it because the man has the power to hurt her and she knows it?

does a woman do all the dishes in her household because she is less capable of breaking out of a long-ago conditioned response than, like, your average trained dog, or is she doing that because she knows that all the men in the house will blame her if she doesnt and will make life worse for her if she speaks up?

maybe a lot of sexist patterns of behavior that are widely observed in society arent caused by women like, lacking willpower or backbone? maybe it is super fucking weird for supposedly feminist movements to imply this is the case when they talk about female socialization as the end all, be all of predicting human behavior?

isnt it both more useful and more respectful toward women to consider that they are perceiving their present circumstances accurately, and recognize when power is already being wielded against them, and take logical measures to deescalate and protect themselves because it works? is it not fucking clear to everybody that trans women in particular have to do this all the fucking time?

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i don't want to sound like a plant, but sunlight kinda slaps